Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [conj] he [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It is possible that he did kill , but having killed , took thought to cover what he had done .
2 Obviously , one can not accept anything that Philby says since he would have a vested interest in causing mischief amongst the British security services , but it is interesting that he did volunteer the suggestion that MI6 was involved .
3 And Otis is relieved that he did take out the extra cover , because , in September in 1989 , just five months after he bought the car , he had an accident .
4 It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will .
5 It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will .
6 It is evident that he did live there in his later years as the Minutes of 1771 agree to provide his successor with lodgings in Chelsea , ‘ until such time as Mr. Miller has quit his apartments in the greenhouse ’ .
  Next page